In mid-October, the Satsuma merchant ship arrived at Hakujo, and the merchant ship of the Saga family also arrived on the front and back feet.

Unlike the Satsuma Domain, Naohide had a deep relationship with the Saga Domain: Naohide's teacher, Mr. Ito Genpu, an orchid doctor, was a retainer of the Nabeshima family, and served as the head of the Saga Ranshuryo School, and Naohide also served as a mentor to Ranshuryo at that time, and also helped Saga establish a glass factory, and the two families had a lot of contacts before Naohide went to sea.

And the Saga clan also reciprocated, and asked Sugitani Yongsuke to lead a team to visit in August to discuss how to cooperate, and when Sugiya left, there were seven people left, all of whom were former students of the windmill group Naohide, but at that time, the business of the two had not been officially negotiated, so the identity of these people was still a guest.

Because their status was rather embarrassing, and the white lord had a lot of private affairs, these people and merchants were driven to the north of the white lord to explore the coal mines before the visit of the rice boat in September. The group had only recently returned, but they had made a lot of gains, discovering several open-pit mines, large and small, and because the nearby Ainu tribe had benefited from the two great hunts, the prospecting team was not in any danger, but the prospecting process was a little harder.

Naohide actually values these seven people very much - these people have a certain amount of research on Ranga, they also have a certain amount of practice in Saga, and they used to be Naohide's students, so they have advantages in both public and private aspects.

But Naohide refused to let Saga mix himself with sand so easily, and now he can only let these people teach and make soy sauce in the township.

The Saga Domain's visit was very sincere, and at the beginning of the meeting, the opinion of the head of the family, Nabeshima Saimasa, was conveyed: as long as Naohide was willing to explain in detail how to manufacture breech rifles, in addition to promising trade, the seven people left in front could also be turned into official retainers of Naohide, and even if Naohide had other requirements, they could also talk.

Explain? As soon as the explanation was mentioned, Naoxiu was full of lawsuits.

The Satsuma caravan that had just arrived in front of him was dark and dizzy with the relevant people.

In addition to the merchants, there were also blacksmiths and Lan doctors. The merchant was easy to do and handed it over to Okubo for reception, and it is said that he had already gone to Matsumae to inspect the market with the merchant of the money house after disguise, but the blacksmith and the orchid doctor could only be received by Naohide himself.

Xixiang has nine out of ten knacks for ironmaking, and he doesn't know anything, although it is a bit of a burying person, but if you tell the truth, this is the truth, and the master who came with him was at a loss when he talked about Lan Xue, and his foundation was too poor.

And Naohide's side is also miserable.,Toranosuke, who once participated in Nirayama ironmaking, was sent overseas.,Nakahama Manjiro went back to Tosa to visit relatives.,There are only a few people left in Mr. Tan'an's rope martial arts hall with practical experience.,Although the white lord did something out of the ordinary can still be explained by the shogunate's stubbornness and stubbornness.,But blatantly leaking secrets and colluding with foreign feudal clans is another matter.,So Naohide had to go out in person and take out a bunch of books for Saigo and others to make up the class first.。

Satsuma people have a good attitude, study hard every day, and when Naohide comes to explain, he can ask a lot of questions, but often one question leads to another, Naohide is unbearable, and finally decides, don't care about the principle, just do what I say, don't ask why, just ask how to do it. After this arrangement, the learning progress is faster.

At the same time, the Lan doctor who came also asked for a son because the head of the family, Qi Bin, was afraid of having a heavy trust, which caused him to inquire very carefully about the process and principles, and Yingzigui was the acting official's wife, and there was a difference between the noble and the low, plus the difference between men and women, and it was very painful for both sides to get along. This kind of thing involves the foundation of the Shimazu family, and Naohide didn't dare to wait slowly, so he ran to explain and translate to both sides when he had time, which was also an unusual headache.

In the end, Mr. Sanshan, the medical officer of the white master, couldn't stand it anymore, and said that the letter was spiritual, and the medical book did not let him take anything

What kind of special medicine, it's completely date calculation, body maintenance exercises, etc., you just ask how to operate it well, and the implication is that you love to learn and not learn to roll.

Satsuma came to the Lan doctor was not convinced, put forward a few cases, want to be embarrassed for Mr. Miyama and Yingzi, but Mr. Miyama is a student of Siebald, Fuso's current most orthodox Koban Lan doctor, if it is not wanted by the shogunate and fleeing everywhere, the reputation may not be under Mr. Xuan Pu as the three Lan doctors, and Yingzi in addition to studying with Ninomiya Rice, but also in the rice country officially went to medical school, plus the golden finger given by Naoxiu, specializing in gynecology and parenting, attainments are very attained, the two of them began to doubt life, Naoxiu only got out of the sea of suffering.

Now Saga wants Naohide to explain in detail how to manufacture the breech rifle, although it is professionals such as Totao Motoshima and Yosuke Sugitani, Naohide is still a little trembling.

Why? The principle is relatively easy to say, Saga people can't ask any profound questions for the time being, the logic can be rounded, and the reason sounds like that, but the processing involves machine tools and chemicals, and this thing is not easy to do.

It was not until 1856 that Fuso introduced the first machine tool, the Mausdre lathe. Now, although Shengyibang and others are against the sky in Jiushan, according to the successful imitation of the machine tool brought back by Zhixiu, they also sent the white master to show off to Zhixiu, but there is no use for Zhixiu.

The machine tool for processing ordnance needs stable power, and the Nirayama Iron Smelting Institute can rely on the steam engine brought back by Naohide to drive the machine tool, but the white master can't - it's not that there is no machine tool, and the machine tool and steam engine that Naohide specially let Mi Chuan bring back are in the warehouse, but now there is a lack of charcoal, and the steam engine can't be opened at all.

There was some coal left over from the rice boats in September, but it was all boiled whale oil and processed meat during the big hunt, which was not enough at that time, and a lot of firewood was used. In addition, the team leader John also had to leave some precautions against accidents, although it was possible to refuel coal in Naha, but it was not okay to be cautious in ocean sailing.

The white master's carboniferous mine was recently explored by the samurai of the Saga windmill group, and there was no time to dig it, so the coal was in short supply in the white master.

Naohide knew this, and he used the manufacture of the breech rifle to lure Saga and Satsuma into developing ironmaking, chemical industry, and machine manufacturing, so he made preparations in private, and everything was for today.

He pulled Totao Motoshima, Yosuke Sugitani, and others to the workshop, looked at the machine, and then - no more, and the demonstration ended here. In fact, with the current strength of the white lord, it is impossible to make breech guns and copper cartridge casings, not even gunpowder, and even steam engines cannot be taken out - because the shogunate has not yet succeeded in copying, Naohide cannot explain the source, and all of this is actually blind.

The main island and Sugitani were in an uproar on the spot and completely quit.

"Is the breech rifle any good?" But Naoxiu is confident and has a plan for this.

"Extremely sharp." Although Naohide didn't give a sample last time, Sugiya still let go of a few shots with his own hands, and he didn't dare to report to the head of the family without personal experience.

"Saga became a powerful clan with his success in ironmaking, but it wasn't easy to do it overnight, right?"

Motojima and Sugitani had to nod again.

"Breech rifles and copper-shelled bullets are the latest Western techniques, and they are not so easy to make."

To this, the two Saga samurai nodded and shook their heads, expressing their convincing and unconvinced - convincing that they admit that these two things are good things, and it is also very difficult to manufacture, and what is not convincing is that Naohide deceived them into coming to the Northland, and they can't make a deal with Saga with the white lord?

Naohide didn't have the heart to play Saga at all, and he invited the two back to his wood

House, introduced the basic process and processing method in detail - the last time I gave the structural diagram and the reaction formula of the compound, as for how to make it, I don't know it, and I will mention it in one stroke.

In fact, if it is a breech gun alone, it can be made by hand, but it is a little troublesome to draw rifling, but it is not without a way. After Saga got the design, he also organized people to discuss.,Everyone came to the conclusion that this is too powerful.,If it's made by hand.,Saga can't make a few in a year.,And you can't make a fire cap at all.,It's useless to make a gun.,So I decided to let Honjima Fuji Taifu follow Yosuke Sugitani to go to the white lord again.,Since the white master has a physical object.,How is it made? I haven't heard of the shogunate's current power?

Zhixiu went back and forth to the two of them, and the two of them understood that Zhixiu was indeed not hiding any secrets, and what he said was clear, outlining, and clear, but they were deflated on the spot, which required a steam engine, a machine tool, and a compound, and it seemed completely useless.

It is not necessarily that there are no good things that come easily, but more good things can be obtained through hard work, and the same is true for achievement and happiness.

"Foreigner にできて、われわれにできないはずはない。 金は惜しくない。 研究を重ねて必ず成功させよ。 Nao-su tried to use words to encourage the two of them to cheer up.

Motojima and Sugitani were shocked to hear Naohide's words, which means "if foreigners can have it, we can have it too." Money is not a pity, as long as you work hard and study repeatedly, you will definitely succeed. ”

Originally, this sentence was said by Naohide's original world when the head of the Saga family, Nabeshima Saimasa, encouraged Motoshima and others to work hard to build a reverberatory furnace, when the reverberatory furnace failed repeatedly, a lot of money was spent and there was no hope, and the retainers lost confidence, and Motoshima Fujio was ready to commit suicide to apologize, and Saimasa said the above words in order to encourage everyone, and finally Saga was the first to build a reverberatory furnace in Fuso.

But in this world, because of Naohide's reasons, the first to successfully build a small blast furnace and an emission furnace was the Nirayama Ironworks led by Egawa Tanan, and Saga was a step slower, but because of the thick foundation and the fact that he was able to study at Nirayama, Saga's ironmaking construction was completed smoothly, so there was no need for special encouragement from the head of the family, Qi Zheng.

Hearing this, Motojima and Sugitani were shocked, because Naohide completely put aside the view of the gateway in his words, implying that the Fuso people should unite and forge ahead as a whole, which is very rare at this time.

Originally, Saga's side was very wary of the transaction, and it was only because he had a long-term friendship with Naohide that he could barely carry it out, but he never understood Naohide's position, and he had doubts about cooperation from top to bottom - did Naohide want to stand on his own feet or harm Saga? But the white lord is sparsely populated, and there is no hope of self-reliance; And Naohide did help his family a lot before, and he couldn't find Naoxiu's motive for harming Saga.

Maybe it's an order from the shogunate, but what can the shogunate and Naohide get out of this?

Although Saga made some small moves, he was generally very deferential, and Ishitaka was not the most famous outsider, so there was no need for the shogunate to be so troublesome - at this time, the prestige of the shogunate was very high, and if Saga was directly opened, there was no room for resistance.

But after listening to these words today, Motojima and Sugiya, who are pioneers themselves, feel a little clear, Saga is the Nagasaki Imperial Domain, and I agree with Naohide's constant fear of the invasion of Western countries.

At least at this moment, the three people present, including the main island and Sugitani of Saga and the town of Okubo, could feel Naohide's sincerity, so everyone leaned down and solemnly saluted Naohide.